Olearia macrodonta Baker

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets slender, with appressed tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 2.5-4 cm. including petiole c. 8 mm. long, subobliquely ovate-oblong to oblong, acute to acuminate, rounded to truncate at base, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in appressed white tomentum below; margins undulate, closely coarsely sharply dentate-serrate. Capitula ∞, up to 1 cm. long, in large corymbs; phyll. few, narrow, pubescent to villous; florets 8-12, rays short, narrow. Achenes grooved, pubescent to pilose; pappus-hairs unequal, dull white to reddish.

Lowland to sub-alpine forest to 1300 metres, southwards from latitude 37° 30's on North and South Islands.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.